Kinefinity new cameras

NorBro said:
Of course a company would not use the customized 4.6K sensor, but maybe they can use the original and customize it themselves.
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Fairchild has their SKU unit for open sale. For price and further details, you have to contact their sales office. The "old" 4K piece that was inside URSA and Cion was being sold for $1,463 in the quantity of one. I figure, the final negotiated price to someone like BMD was half that.
 
The old 4K sensor is from CMOSIS, not Fairchild. But some blogger who talked to a salesman posted that Cion began with the CMOSIS sensor but switched to something else later on. Hence Cion's delays. Hence the difference in look from the original Cion promo footage and footage after release.

As for the Fairchild LTN4625A, it is listed on Fairchild's public website, alongside several of their other sensors. So I assume that means "for sale" rather than "neener neener neener."
 
You can also just click the flag in the top-right, and choose English.

Website is always super slow for me.
 
KineFinity sell battle tested bodies at a significant discount, I wonder how long until we'll see Terra bodies showing up cheap reconditioned on their website?

Probably longer than one year, maybe two years?
 
Is by any chance KineMount an open mount like say Micro Four Thirds is? I am guessing it is not.

There is a thread over on BMCuser about possible interchangeable mounts for BMD cameras.

Got me thinking that the absolute best result would be if BMD adopted the FZ mount in future cameras. FZ mount is what is used in the Sony F3/F5/F55, which I've used and is an absolutely wonderful mount! You can adapt it to anything else, for instance I've got a rock solid Nikon F mount on my Sony PMW-F3. So it works, and FZ is an already popular mount used by many.

But Sony will never let BMD use FZ mount. Thus the very nearly almost as good option is to talk with Kinefinity and see if they'd open up KineMount for everybody to use (in many ways KineMount is like Sony FZ mount, and kinda better... as Kinefinity have a focal reducer option! Yay). As if that happened it would be tremendously good news for both companies, and a massive result to help the indy / hobbyist / low / medium budget film industry.

Be great if Kinefinity and BMD could talk together with each other to create a universal mount system which can go onto dominate the film industry in the future.

http://www.bmcuser.com/showthread.php?16668-Possible-interchangeable-mounts-for-4-6K
 
Well, PL is great, but I'd hardly call it universal. You can put basically any lens on a m43 or E mount (including PL), but PL mount only takes PL lenses.

If they let me decide that new universal mount, it would sound as follows:
It's a circle, 70mm across, with six M3 screws sitting 30mm from the center, positioned at 12 o'clock, 2 o'clock, etc. The back of that plate sits 16mm away from the sensor plane, and the screws can only go up to 5mm beyond that into the body. There will be X electronic pins at position Y for functions ABC.
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Then you can make your universal-plate-to-whatever-mount adapter. There would be $30 aluminium dumb adapters, and $1000 titanium ones with electronics and whatnot.
 
Sure, give it time and a bit of luck (if as well as Kinefinity/BMD, many other players pick it up such as Apertus, JVC, Nikon, AJA, etc... ) perhaps KineMount could become a popular mount of choice if they opened it up for others to use.

Look at how quickly Canon EF mount become popular and an almost "standard" with many low / mid range cinema cameras! (such as Varicam LT / Arri Alexa Mini / BMPC4K / BMCC EF / URSA / URSA Mini / Axiom / etc ). If a rock solid sub mount for cinema usage, such as KineMount, was set up as an open standard and adopted by a few manufacturers then I think it won't take many years at all before it gets to the common usage level.
 
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